Economics causes peoples’ eyes to glaze over.
Then they’ve never had to live on a budget
Our educational system is purposely raising generations of profoundly ignorant students. To expect them to actually learn anything of substance is seen as child abuse.
Only the very bright or the very traditionally raised escape the crippling results of this.
Its because they are idiots.
Most people only have direct interaction with their government or politicians once every other year.
Everyone deals with economics every moment for the entire journey on this rock, whether you are alive or not...